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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:04:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011221090330.92707F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org>

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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Nils Holland wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:28:47PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah stood up and spoke:
> > 
> > We're in codefreeze on the RELENG_4 branch, and if you build a kernel
> > from up-to-date sources, it'll say "4.5-PRERELEASE" and not
> > "4.4-STABLE".  From now until 4.5-RELEASE, any commits to RELENG_4 get 
> > reviewed by the release engineers first (with a few exceptions).
> > 
> > murray announced this on one of the committers lists but I haven't seen
> > it anywhere else.
> 
> I didn't see it anywhere else either, which is actually kind of sad. I
> guess not only the commiters on the commiters list would like to be
> updated about things like this. So, I guess, for "normal people" to be
> able to keep up with the events leading towards the release, wouldn't it
> be a good idea to mail a copy of such announcements to a more "general"
> place? -announce comes to my mind first, but if that one is only for
> announcing the actual release, probably -stable should do it, as it is
> highly likely that those who would like to know when the code is freezed
> so that they can CVSup and test it, are most likely subscribed to
> -stable. 

I know that announcements have also been going to the qa@FreeBSD.org list,
which is the public list for release process discussion.  The announcement
should probably also have been CC'd to -STABLE, I'll bug Murray. :-)

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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